I've had bad problems with tables in general going back to Office v.X Something about them won't work properly and either crashes Word or corrupts files. Way I've gotten around it is create them in another app (Excel for one) and import it as a picture back into Word.

I've had no problems with tables in Word 2008 but then I'm not importing documents from Windows Word. I use Word 2007 on my Windows PC and Word 2008 on my Mac but I try not to import documents that contain tables, lots of graphics, or macros (which will not work with Word 2008).

The Word document you're importing with tables from Windows... is it in DOCX format or DOC? I try to do all my importing by using the older standard rather than XML. I find that by using the older standard, the document generally will import will little or no change. The only disadvantage is that the standard formatted document (DOC) with tables or graphics tend to be much larger than those formatted using XML (DOCX).

I've had no problems with tables in Word 2008 but then I'm not importing documents from Windows Word. I use Word 2007 on my Windows PC and Word 2008 on my Mac but I try not to import documents that contain tables, lots of graphics, or macros (which will not work with Word 2008).

The Word document you're importing with tables from Windows... is it in DOCX format or DOC? I try to do all my importing by using the older standard rather than XML. I find that by using the older standard, the document generally will import will little or no change. The only disadvantage is that the standard formatted document (DOC) with tables or graphics tend to be much larger than those formatted using XML (DOCX).

Regards.

Thanks for the info.

The windows version is in DOCX format - as it is on my MBP. I think it's XP on the work machine - maybe this doesn't help either.

Would a table create a macro?

It's not that it changes as such - just that it hang.....s and takes ages to do *anything*.

Maybe I'll try a table from scratch on my MBP - keep it only on this machine and see how I get on.

I've had no problems with tables in Word 2008 but then I'm not importing documents from Windows Word. I use Word 2007 on my Windows PC and Word 2008 on my Mac but I try not to import documents that contain tables, lots of graphics, or macros (which will not work with Word 2008).

The Word document you're importing with tables from Windows... is it in DOCX format or DOC? I try to do all my importing by using the older standard rather than XML. I find that by using the older standard, the document generally will import will little or no change. The only disadvantage is that the standard formatted document (DOC) with tables or graphics tend to be much larger than those formatted using XML (DOCX).